Sister Florence
Colette Hughes, abogada de los derechos de los pacientes, va a defender a nueva cliente, Eleanor Riese, una paciente de la unidad psiquiátrica de un hospital de San Francisco. Hughes no se imagina que, además de emprender una batalla legal para mejorar el tratamiento de los enfermos mentales en los hospitales, transformará su vida.
Marie
Angel trabaja como fotógrafa en Nueva York y ha abandonado la prostitución, pero sin olvidar a las que siguen llevando esa vida. Mientras cubre la inauguración de una galería de arte, y al revelar las fotos, en el fondo de una de ellas, ve un rostro familiar, un rostro que la persigue desde niña: su madre. Determinada a encontrar a su madre y resolver los enigmas de su pasado. Angel vuelve a Los Ángeles.
Opel McCarthy
Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's advice councillor.
Mrs. Oberman
A young marginally intellectually-disabled girl and boy meet, plan to marry, and convince the world that they are entitled to a life of their own -- despite attempts by the girl's parents to separate them.
Linda Ann
A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that she has a unique and special talent, which causes her no end of trouble.
Hostess (uncredited)
El éxito como cantante de Esther Hoffman es paralelo al proceso de autodestrucción de su marido John Norman, una estrella del rock en decadencia y adicto a las drogas.
Bess (as Cynthia Towne)
A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that he has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant
